WORST MOM EVER!

Meet America's worst mother — 33-year-old Shannell Monique Mosley — who left her six children at home with no food or money while she flew off to Africa to marry a man she'd met on the Internet, say authorities.

"How any mother could do such a thing is beyond belief," outraged prosecutor John Jordan told The ENQUIRER.

Mosley is now sitting in a Houston, Texas, jail for leaving her kids — ages 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16 — to fend for themselves after jetting to Nigeria to get married.

"I've been doing this kind of work for 18 years, and I've never had a case as shocking as this," Estella Olguin, spokesperson for the Harris County Child Protective Services in Houston, told The ENQUIRER. "A lot of people are saying she's got to be America's worst mother."

The case came to light when the 15-year-old crashed the family's van on Dec. 31, the day her mom left.

When deputies went to Mosley's home on Jan. 2, they discovered a shocking scene: The six children, plus two others — a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old whom Mosley was supposed to be baby-sitting — were hungry and dirty.

The house was littered with trash, and dirty dishes were piled high. There was no food in the home, nor were there diapers or milk for the baby.

Officials located Mosley and told her the children had been taken into foster homes, but she refused to come home for three more weeks because she said she was on her honeymoon, added Jordan.

When Mosley finally flew back to Houston on Jan. 28, she was arrested. She is facing charges of child abandonment and child endangerment, and could serve up to 10 years in jail.